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What if we just kiss? Maybe you’ll change your mind.
CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH 2022, written and directed by Cooper Raiff
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dreamingincerulean · 2 years
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Cha Cha Real Smooth
S'good. S'Goood! (like Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty aka the failed catchphrase)
(Cha Cha Real Smooth is a new movie out of the Apple tv movie thingies with Cooper Raiff and Dakota Johnson....oh and Lesley Manning! Love her! Coops directed, wrote and starred in it...and maybe fell in love? (j/k) (but seriously he has soulful eyes) (he's like a new version of Zach Braff)
I think the way Cooper looks at Dakota is one of genuine feeling of warmth and intensity and it's like.....did he just fall in love with his co-star?! Lmao....too many movies getting made where the costars obviously have zero sizzle. They assume the hallmark bs is gonna be good enough for women. No. We need believability when we're trying to escape realism over here, muthafuckas! Do better, casting directors!
Oh and his brother in the movie? Did a lot of believable acting as well...including being terrible at acting, for a commercial. So....I think if you are really good at making a distinctive version between good and bad acting....you're where you need to be. I think acting is about nuance and instinct.
It's a bittersweet movie but has that great 90s indie movie vibes going for it.
I also don't want it to be Monday already. I need two more days off, damn it.
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courtneysmovieblog · 2 years
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Trailers: “Avatar 2″ finally is coming
We got a bunch of trailers to talk about:
Father of the Bride: Remake starring Andy Garcia, and the new twist is he’s trying to hide his impending divorce while planning his daughter’s wedding. This might be good, I hope they’ll expand the release beyond HBO Max, or at least put it on HBO so I can watch it next time there’s a free weekend.
Spiderhead: Chris Hemsworth tests emotion-altering substances on prisoners. Pass.
Cha Cha Real Smooth: Bat mitzvah party host (Cooper Raiff) befriends the mother (Dakota Johnson) of an autistic girl. It’s AppleTV and I’m interested enough to watch.   
The Gray Man: Spy (Ryan Gosling) vs Psycho Spy (Chris Evans). I hate the fact that I may watch yet another film from the Russos despite how much I detest them, but Chris Evans and his trash stache is just too tempting.
Three Thousand Years of Longing: Tilda Swinton finds a genie (Idris Elba). Okay, George Miller, you have my curiosity.
Beast: Idris Elba vs a monster lion. This is why I would never, ever go on a safari.
Prey: Prequel to Predator. So apparently this thing has been around since the colonial ages. Wow.
Rise: Disney+ Giannis biopic. Not much of an NBA fan, but it does look good.
Luck: Animated movie about a world of luck. Again, AppleTV, so I’ll watch. I mean, it does look cute...
Vengeance: Dark comedy about a podcaster (BJ Novak) investigated the death of his girlfriend, and a bunch of nutty conspiracy theorists. Who might actually be right about some things.
Bros: Billy Eichner writes and stars in a raunchy LGTBQ romcom that will smash stereotypes. And it does look pretty funny.
Catherine Called Birdy: Oh my God, I loved this book when I was a kid! I had no idea it was going to be a movie! Will have to keep Amazon Prime til fall just to watch it!
Avatar: The Way of Water: Wow, and it only took a decade. Yeah, I’m sorry, I was never into Avatar, and I don’t care.
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1: Oh COME ON! Now THIS franchise is splitting its movies in half?! Ugh.
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11 and 14 for the new year ask 💞
thank u for asking! 🧡
11. what is an achievement that you are proud of this year?
i started going back to therapy :-)
14. any three upcoming movies/tv series that you are excited for next year:
killing eve season 4!!
spider-man: across the universe part one
cha cha real smooth (dakota johnson directed and co-starring cooper raiff…..this movie is made For Me)
end of year asks
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10 movies you'll want to see from the Sundance Film Festival
LOS ANGELES
Dispatches from the Sundance Film Festival are usually accompanied by descriptions of the looming mountains, snowy premieres and frantic bus shuttles. This year's Sundance, which played out entirely virtually due to the COVID-19 surge driven by the omicron variant, meant less evocative screening circumstances: Laptops, digital links and Zooms.
But even in reduced form, the films were often hypnotic, thrilling and urgent. Here are 10 films that stood out to AP Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle from their virtual Sundance, which wrapped Sunday.
— “Fire of Love”: Katia and Maurice Krafft were married French volcanologists who spent their lives documenting the world’s volcanoes and died during one such expedition in Japan in 1991. Werner Herzog used them briefly in “Into the Inferno,” but the Kraffts and their stunning photographs and 16-millimeter films get the spotlight in Sara Dosa’s “Fire of Love,” a mesmerizing and almost mystical portrait of love and the extremes of the natural world to be released by National Geographic. With a synthy indie pop score (including Brian Eno and Air), Miranda July narration and experimental editing, it’s like Mike Mills meets Terrence Malick meets Guy Maddin. — LB
— “Descendent”: Margaret Brown's documentary concerns the discovery of the Clotilda, a schooner submerged in Alabama's Mobile River in 1860, considered to be the last known slave ship to bring enslaved Africans to the U.S. But Brown's film, which was acquired by Netflix and the Obamas' High Ground Productions, excavates far more than the Clotilda. In taking a wide lens to the descendants of the ship and the present-day circumstances of Africatown near Mobile, where many of the survivors settled, “Descendant” lyrically ruminates on the legacy of slavery in America, telescoping past and present like few films before it. — JC
— “Cha Cha Real Smooth”: On paper, this movie looks like something that came out of a round of Sundance mad-libs: Aimless college grad gets hired by local mothers to be a party starter on the local bar-mitzvah circuit and strikes up a friendship with a young single mom of an autistic teenage daughter. And yet Cooper Raiff’s sophomore film, which he stars in alongside Dakota Johnson, is never what you expect. Sweet, funny and moving, this is a small, indie trope-defying gem that’ll be on Apple TV+ this year. — LB
— “The Exiles”: Sundance's grand jury prize winner for documentary is a sometimes awkwardly balanced fusion of essentially two films that nevertheless makes for a profound examination of political dissent and missed opportunity for change. “The Exiles," which is directed by Ben Klein and Violet Columbus and executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, seems initially like a portrait of Christine Choy, the brash Oscar-nominated filmmaker and professor. Choy has more than enough personality to fill a character study, but she's a framing device here. “The Exiles” leans on footage Choy shot in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre with a handful of Chinese protesters in New York. Decades later, Choy and the filmmakers meet with those long-exiled dissidents again to tenderly and thoughtfully consider their sacrifice and unfinished battles for freedom. The binding tissue of “The Exiles” is a firm, fiery belief that uncompromisingly outspoken is the only way to live. — JC
— “We Need to Talk About Cosby”: Bill Cosby’s descent was fairly definitive. And yet even with his (brief) imprisonment and the wider cultural #MeToo reckoning, director W. Kamau Bell had a feeling that we had not yet fully processed what had happened to the man once known as America’s Dad. And indeed the four-part docuseries “We Need to Talk About Cosby,” rolling out on Showtime over the next three weekends, delivers on its title. Bell talks to survivors, colleagues and cultural commentators about Cosby’s life, career, impact and misdeeds, in his own attempt to grapple with the downfall of someone he and many others once thought of as hero. It is an absolute must-see. — LB
— “Emily the Criminal”: The burden of student loan debut is taken to darkly electrifying extremes in first-time writer-director John Patton Ford’s taut neo-noir thriller. Most of all, it’s a showcase for Aubrey Plaza, who plays a desperate young Los Angeles woman drawn into a criminal underworld through high-paying but dangerous scams (with a charming Theo Rossi) that slyly critique modern-day economic injustices. The always engrossing Plaza, also a producer on the film, has never been more potent. — JC
— “The Princess”: There are so, so many accounts of Diana’s life, struggles, death and legacies (many recent and many excellent, too) that even the idea of another film just sounds exhausting. But “The Princess,” coming to HBO this year, is something else entirely. Director Ed Perkins tells the story of her public life using only archival footage, including news broadcasts, man-on-the-street interviews, talk show segments, b-roll and outtakes. Looking at us looking at her is an immersive, moving and revelatory experience. — LB
— “Navalny ”: Daniel Roher’s documentary of the imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is a riveting, occasionally farcical, often alarming portrait of a still-unspooling real-life geopolitical drama. The film, which HBO Max and CNN will release later this year, was both the documentary audience award winner and the overall audience winner at Sundance. That’s a testament to Roher’s film and to Navalny’s audacious, entertaining manner. — JC
— “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”: Emma Thompson plays a somewhat repressed widow who hires a handsome sex worker (Daryl McCormack) in “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” a charming (and slightly blue) chamber piece about finding yourself later in life that Searchlight Pictures will release on Hulu. Sophie Hyde directs off a script from Katy Brand, that turns what could have been a cheap gimmick into a terrifically witty, sophisticated, adult comedy. — LB
— “The Janes”: Unlawful, underground Chicago syndicates have long been the stuff of movies. But the HBO film “The Janes,” directed by Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes, documents a lesser known chapter in 20th century American history, with overwhelming relevance to today. Lessin and Pildes' film chronicles the Jane Collective, a group of women who banded together in the late ‘60s and early ’70s to offer illegal abortions to women who needed them, in the years before Roe v. Wade. In “The Janes,” those women — now in their 60s and 70s — compelling tell their story, many of them for the first time on camera. A fictional drama about the collective, Phyllis Nagy's “Call Jane,” also debuted at Sundance.
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My Old School
This film is definitely in my top three favorites. It took many turns I was not expecting at all and was very exhilarating as secrets kept being revealed. It was a documentary about a man who pretended to be a 16 year old boy in order to go back to school and be a doctor. Through the recounts of old classmates and the importer himself, along with animation of the story as it’s being told, we learn why he did this and all the things that followed when he was found out. Amazing documentary and the story was told in a way to keep you engaged the whole time.
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Ok. This is probably my favorite film I’ve seen so far, a close one to The Princess though. I absolutely loved it. It was sweet and touching at the same time. The film follows Andrew, a fresh college graduate, as he navigates his life after college. He comes back to his home because he doesn’t know what he wants to do, and he ends up becoming a party starter for bar mitzvahs. During this time he meets Domino and her daughter, Lola. He ends up babysitting Lola and gets very interested in Domino. Nothing much happens between the two of them besides a kiss, but in the Q & A, the director, Cooper Raiff, described it as “puppy love” and I totally agree with that. In the end he gets a job and has the rest of his life on track. I really liked how calming this film was compared to the others which got me very emotional.
Emily The Criminal
Honestly I thought I’d like this film a lot more. Don’t get me wrong, I really liked it and overall it is a great film, but after watching some other films at the festival, this one just felt different. The film follows Emily as she does illegal, oddball jobs in order to help pay off some of her debt. She gets into a relationship with Youcef, the guy she “works” for, and in the end Youcef ends up being robbed by one of his friends. Emily and Youcef go to get revenge, but things end the way we don’t want to. I highly recommend you watch this film if and when you can. Maybe I was just a little burnt out after watching so many films, but I was just bored. No hate to the movie, it was greatly written and performed.
Piggy
A mystery, horror, thriller type film. Let’s just say I was absolutely shocked at the end. The film was so amazing and beautiful at the same time. It does get very gorey at times, so if you're squeamish probably don’t watch. All the performances were immaculate. The main character, Sara, and as the three popular girls call her, Piggy, this film shows how mean people can be when they bully someone. After the three popular girls get kidnapped, Sara struggles whether to tell authorities or not because the girls weren't so nice to her. I won’t go into too much detail about what happened, as I don’t want to spoil anything. You really have to watch this film for yourself to understand what is going on.
Something In The Dirt
Something In The Dirt, I thought, was the definition of an indie film. If you don’t really understand what indie film is, watch this film and you’ll understand. The film essentially follows two characters who are trying to prove the supernatural. They spend days in their apartment videotaping a weird quartz they found. Later we learn that the characters are making a documentary about what they are experiencing and the film is essentially a documentary about making a documentary about what these guys experienced. It is kind of confusing and really only makes sense after you watch it. Although I was still confused at the end. Haha. I really thought it was a good film put together, but it wasn’t really my style so I didn’t end up liking it as much as others.
Stefanie Lorimer
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